The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.

The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.

  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    61·
    2 years ago

    The amount of abject cruelty that is being leveled at trans children in Florida is fucking horrifying. This is legally enforced humiliation and bullying. This alone would have been more than enough to drive me to suicide when I was a child myself. And they are absolutely aware that this will cause that. Ron plans to orchestrate a genocide in Florida. He’s essentially forced every single person, company, doctor, politician, educator, teacher, any professional human being or group of human beings who values human life out of the state. When he’s done all that will remain are the most openly violent fascists and all the people who are too impoverished to leave the state. Of which many such impoverished disenfranchised people are trans children. How such open fascist power has not been internationally condemned and how he himself has not faced expulsion from any political office and faced serious legal actions from the government of the United States is beyond me. I thought world War 2 and the rise of fascism in Europe was supposed to have taught us something. Evidently not.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 years ago

        I know I did the numbers once and if you just lined up the dead combatants from the USSR side head to toe it would cover a distance from NYC to LA multiple times.

        Most depressing road trip ever.

    • whofearsthenight@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      I thought world War 2 and the rise of fascism in Europe was supposed to have taught us something.

      They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em.

      WWII might have been the end, but they’ve slowly been worsening education especially in places like Florida. I think at this point, capitalist social media is also a significant cause of the rise in fascism. When Zuck decides to platform holocaust deniers or twitter decides “free speech [for nazis]” it legitimizes it. It doesn’t take much before this translates into real life. You surround yourself online in your little bubble with all of the other crazies (yay Facebook is bringing people together) long enough and it’s nearly impossible not to translate that into the real world.

      History is pretty fuckin’ easy to repeat if you don’t know the history.

  • Red_October@lemmy.world
    57·
    2 years ago

    Did you know that in the worst case sea level scenario due to climate change, all of Florida will be completely underwater? That means that while the world IS headed toward an inhospitable hellscape, at least we have the silver lining of seeing Florida completely eradicated.

    • blue_zephyr@lemmy.world
      20·
      2 years ago

      You’re not thinking this through. Every Florida man alive will flee to dry land. Florida is a people, not a place.

    • Iusedtobeanadventurer@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      Did you know that most voters in Florida don’t agree with this shit and that taking glee in the potential eradication of an entire people and their home is exactly the same kind of shit that racists do when they blame all Muslims for terrorism or Hitler and the Nazis did when they targeted a population for their religion (or for simply being related to someone who was a Jew)?

      The examples of this “they’re the bad guys” generalism is part of the problem. If you’re really so enlightened, don’t be part of the problem, too, it only alienates more who might be part of solving the problem if they weren’t ostracized over something as stupid as their birthplace or where they choose to live.

      • prole@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        2 years ago

        DeSantis won his last election by the largest margin in a Florida election in over 40 years

        If this isn’t what people there want, they’ve got a very strange way of showing it.

      • jimbo@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        “Floridian” is not “a people” in the sense you’re trying to use the word (I mean, really, comparing them to the Jews, lol). If someone wants to stick around while the ocean slowly swallows up the panhandle, that’s their business.

    • blue_zephyr@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 years ago

      It’s extra ironic because conservatives want you to believe that people are somehow forcing them to use certain pronouns, but they’re the only ones passing fascist laws that dictate what pronouns you’re required to use.

  • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
    37·
    2 years ago

    Grrr. “Call people what they ask you to call them.” is not supposed to a difficult aspect of the Golden Rule to understand.

  • blue_zephyr@lemmy.world
    36·
    2 years ago

    You’d think that half the population of Florida is trans with the disproportional amount of effort the gremlins in charge undetake to inflict cruelty on them.

    When are the people of Florida going to put their precious second amendment rights to good use?

  • Decoy321@lemmy.world
    33·
    2 years ago

    This is so ridiculously out of touch. You think they’re gonna stop kids from using nicknames?

    • blue_zephyr@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      At the least this law will protect teachers that bully trans students, at the most they could start actively prosecuting teachers for using a student’s preferred pronouns.

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
    30·
    2 years ago

    Under the guidance, published Monday (7 August), teachers at schools in Orange County must use pronouns and titles that correspond to their “biological sex” at birth, and parents must fill out a form to let teachers know of any deviation from their child’s legal name, even if this is a simple nickname.

    So if the governor of Florida was subjected to this “guidance”, he would need permission to go by Ron.

  • Rottcodd@kbin.social
    17·
    2 years ago

    I left Florida in '93, and there were times I regretted it. There were a lot of good things about Florida, and it was always interesting. And once you adapt to the weather, it’s nice (if a bit dull).

    Now though? Holy fuck I’m glad I’m not there. I don’t even understand what’s going on there - it’s like some sort of mass psychosis. It’s gone way beyond a political shift - it’s more as if someone decided that the thing to do was to establish some sort of right-wing version of the Khmer Rouge and a bunch of Floridians said, “Yeah! That’d be great!”

    At the rate they’re going, it’s only a matter if time before they start systematically killing “undesirables”.

    Seriously.

  • Coreidan@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 years ago

    Florida is cancer.

    Can we just turn the state into an island and have it float out into the sea?